Shirley Clarke's adaptation of Jack Gelber's play about eight junkies waiting for a fix in a Greenwich Village loft is a shattering slice of funk-city life. Within the confines of a single, claustrophobic set, Clarke's camerawork is amazingly inventive - the nervous mise-en-scene is choreographed like a savage dance. The actors - including Gary Goodrow, Warren Finnerty and Carl Lee - are all superb as variously spaced-out characters, rapping, jiving, blowing cool jazz, taunting the camera.